America’s 250th anniversary arrives at a time of deep political divisions and, in some quarters, heightened anxiety over whether representative government in the world’s oldest democracy can be ...

This video looks at what the Declaration of Independence conspicuously avoids, then walks through the slavery passage Jefferson originally wrote and why Congress cut it. Along the way, it challenges ...

Two and a half centuries later, Americans still argue over what the Declaration means. Two hundred and fifty years after it was written, the Declaration of Independence remains a shared reference ...

Friday on the RCP Podcast, RCP columnist Peter Berkowitz spoke with Carl Cannon about his piece defending the Declaration of Independence from critiques on both the left and the right. Berkowitz wrote ...

Women used the Declaration’s language to demand rights they were denied. Women were not the intended audience of the Declaration of Independence, but they refused to treat it as a finished document.

The original printing is just one of 26 known remaining copies, and one of three located west of the Appalachian Mountains.